We have written plenty about AI-generated images, and today, we are going to illustrate why we have had a problem since its announcement. On October 30, Spain was hit by an unprecedented flood, which killed over 200 people, reported TIME.
Photographer Pete Souza, best known for his role as chief official White House photographer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, has deleted his X account (formerly Twitter) after making controversial remarks concerning a photo of former President and current Republican nominee, Donald Trump. [Read More]
Threads has started to test out one of its "most requested" features: an in-app camera.
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About a week after an artificial intelligence (AI) generated image of an explosion outside the Pentagon went viral on Twitter, the social media giant is using its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, to fight back against fake or misleading images. [Read More]
Meta was rumored to be working on a standalone Twitter competitor, and a new leak shows not only what it might look like, but also how it would pair and sync with Instagram and other apps. [Read More]
Less than a week after the reports indicated that Meta was investigating making a Twitter competitor, Instagram is rolling out that feature, called Notes, to all users. [Read More]
After a year of chasing TikTok's domination in short-form video, Meta is now reportedly considering building its own version of Twitter within its photo-sharing app, Instagram. [Read More]
Instagram will be testing a "repost" feature that would allow users to share other people's posts in their own feeds.
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A video of Kim Kardashian's eldest daughter, North West, holding up a handwritten sign telling photographers to "stop" taking photos of her at Paris Fashion Week has led to a fierce debate about paparazzi filming celebrity children. [Read More]
A Texas law that would have banned social media giants from regulating certain forms of online speech has been blocked by the United States Supreme Court. [Read More]
Adobe has launched the Content Scheduler as part of its Creative Cloud Express platform, a move it says is in response to requests for a unified way to allow creatives to plan, create, and publish content across social media. [Read More]
Twitter has agreed to terms with billionaire Elon Musk. With a tender offer of $54.20 per share, the man who controls both Tesla and SpaceX will purchased the social media platform for $44 billion with the intent to take it private. [Read More]
Sony has joined the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) as its latest steering committee member. The C2PA is an open, technical standards body addressing the prevalence of misleading information online. [Read More]
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Society has evolved a lot over the last two decades. It seems common sense and thoughtful dialogue are slowly fading away. Instead, we're getting deeper into a world of extremes; we're either extremely nice or extremely rude.
The first few images released by the SpaceX team were shot with a Nikon DSLR, but the images shared in the most recent drop by mission commander Jared Isaacman were captured using an iPhone 12. The crew of SpaceX’s Inspiration4 has started sharing some images and videos captured from space during the company’s world’s first […]
NASA astronauts regularly share beautiful images of Earth captured from space. However, a recent batch of photos captured from an even higher orbit than the International Space Station (ISS) provides an even more astonishing view of planet Earth.
Nikon looks set to launch what is likely the first consumer camera to use GNSS instead of GPS. It would be a major upgrade in how geolocation coordinates are obtained for the metadata of photos. The mention of GNSS was first spotted by Nokishita and reported by Nikon Rumors in a government registration filing for […]
Norway has recently passed legislation that makes it illegal for photos that feature any kind of retouching without disclosing the edits posted by celebrities and influencers as part of a pushback against unrealistic beauty standards and a rise in body dysmorphic disorder.
Twitter recently announced full-size images in mobile feeds, much to the delight of photographers. The company has now revealed that one of the reasons for the change is that internal tests revealed race and gender biases in its AI photo-cropping system.
Twitter is the latest tech and media giant to join The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), which focuses on combating misleading and fraudulent online content. In late 2019, Adobe-led collaboration with The New York Times Company and Twitter helped establish the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), which aims to address online content authenticity through […]
Twitter has launched a new program called Birdwatch that puts the power to fight misinformation in the hands of the public. The goal is to have crowdsourced fact-checking that can help identify fake or misleading Tweet content, including photos.
A struggling photographer recently published a Tweet in a last-ditch effort to find some work, and the Hail Mary paid off in a big way: Oprah Winfrey saw it and Tweeted him a job offer. The Coronavirus Pandemic has had a major impact on photographers, many of whom have found it incredibly difficult to find […]
On August 4, an explostion rocked the city of Beirut, killing over 200 and injuring more than 6,500. In order to reconstruct exactly what happened, forensics researchers were able to piece together the event using photos and videos uploaded to social media.
In what has been the feel-good story of the day, Maine photographer Rick Barber was recently featured on his local news for his efforts to photograph and share the sunrise from his home of Ogunquit for the past seven years.
Saudi journalist Enad-al-Otaibi posted on his Twitter a very unique glimpse into how exciting photography can actually be—specifically, it's a video of what happens behind the scenes of a mid-air airplane photoshoot.
Back in January of 2018, Twitter introduced an auto-cropping AI that detects the most interesting part of your image and crops the ‘preview’ photo to match. This works with everything from airplane wings to people, but as one engineer showed this weekend, it may suffer from some inherent bias. Over the weekend, cryptographic engineer Tony […]
When it comes to social media communities for photographers, Instagram is the reigning, undisputed champion today. Prior to Instagram's dominance, the photo-centric social media landscape was a very different place.
Brooklyn Beckham was never going to be the most liked photographer in the industry. As the son of multi-millionaire superstars, he got one of the biggest legs up any photographer has received. For a teenage boy, as he was at the time, his work wasn't the worst we have ever seen, but it certainly didn't warrant a photobook and gig with Burberry! A few years have passed since he burst onto the scene, but even now, people enjoy giving the 21-year-old celebrity photographer some virtual jabs on social media.
An artist on Twitter struck retouching gold recently when she offered up a simple service: she’ll edit your ex out of any photo you send her for just $10 per pic. She’s since received over 800 replies, forcing her to raise her rate… to $15.
Keeping hedgehogs as pets has become uber trendy again, reigniting a craze that began in the early '90s when they were a passing fad - before people realized how difficult it can be to care for them.
Social media has become such an integral part of a photographer's journey. I myself had become so immersed in it that I’d spend a large portion of my day on apps like Instagram and Twitter. Building profiles, portraying the perfect life and living for likes, it absorbs so many of us, including myself.
Yesterday morning, I woke up and deleted all my social media. My Instagram, Twitter, and personal Facebook accounts (I deleted my Facebook business page a year earlier), all gone. I ghosted from the party.
Social media has been making a big impact of today's generation, not only for making personal connections but also for building a professional network. As such, it has been consuming a big chunk of our daily activities and demanding so much of our attention, sometimes for the wrong reasons.
Twitter has just announced that auto-cropping of photos on the social networking service will be producing much better results thanks to a new neural network that has been trained for the task. Twitter has been a platform for photo sharing since 2011, but cropping shared photos into neat previews has been a challenge for developers. […]
Musician Ryan Adams got into another very public scuffle with a photographer this week. Midway through his set at the 2017 Gasparilla Music Festival, Adams, who suffers from Meniere’s disease, called out photographer Joe Sale for using flash photography and potentially putting the musician’s health at risk. Meniere’s disease is an inner ear disorder, and […]
In January 2017, this sounds like the absolute craziest thing that any photographer could possibly do even despite my own research that shows lots of people use it as a dumping ground: but I'm truthfully returning to Flickr.
This is one of the best “Internet saves the day” stories we’ve run across. When a filmmaker in North Carolina took his drone out to survey the damage done by Hurricane Matthew, he inadvertently helped rescue a man and his elderly dog who were trapped in a flooded house. You can’t make this stuff up. […]
If you love those photographers who will “do anything for the shot,” then you’re really going to enjoy Japanese photographer snowfairy88. When he needs to make a splash with one of his portraits, he goes all in… literally.
Last week, Twitter announced that they were adding view counts to tweets on Twitter. I thought I’d use the announcement to very unscientifically compare the number of views one of my photos received on Twitter vs. Flickr. [Read More]
Instagram has officially launched "Candid Stories" -- a new dual camera feature that copies the photo-sharing app BeReal.
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Hive Social, an app many considered to be the new alternative to Instagram and Twitter, has completely shut down its servers to address security issues after it struggled to handle a recent surge in sign-ups. [Read More]
New York has passed a law that will ask those seeing a concealed handgun permit to submit their social media accounts so they can be reviewed for "character and conduct." [Read More]
The photo-centric social media app Instagram looks set to overtake Twitter as a news source, according to a new report on digital news. Reuters Institute has published its Digital News Report 2020, and one of the interesting findings is how much Instagram has surged as a news source among young people. Since 2018, the use […]
Following hot on the heels of Instagram’s new (and at times controversial) “False Information” warning, Twitter has just announced its own policy around labeling and warning users about photos and videos that have been “deceptively altered” and manipulated.
At Adobe MAX 2019, Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky announced the Content Authenticity Initiative – a nascent and ambiguously defined way for attribution to travel with an image and allow consumers to know, in the words of Adobe VP Dana Rao, that “the content they’re seeing is authentic.
If you enjoy following Elon Musk on Twitter, be careful not to call him out on posting photographers’ work without permission or credit. Multiple people just got blocked by the Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur for doing just that.
The Internet is becoming a hectic and volatile place for photographers to share their work. Social media enables photos to be put in the hands of tens, thousands, and even millions in a matter of minutes.
Here’s a strange story that shows the power of Internet crowdsourcing in doing unusual reverse image searches. It all started with a blurry, seemingly questionable photo seen on a smartphone in the hands of a politician in the UK Parliament.
A Colombo crime family "underboss" sentenced to prison this week for extortion and money laundering has said he doesn't regret the topless poolside photo that led to his arrest. [Read More]
Six months ago, Meta introduced new sharing-focused features on Instagram, including Notes, Group Profiles, and new Stories functionality. As it turns out, Notes have proven very popular with young users, prompting Instagram to add more features to it including the ability to attach a 30-second clip of a song to a status update. [Read More]
Hive Social is back online, two weeks after its creators abruptly shut the service down in order to address security issues. [Read More]
Colorize Bot is an incredible Twitter tool that transforms black and white photos into color using artificial intelligence (AI). [Read More]
A photographer dad has figured out a magic word that always seems to elicit a natural smile from his son when shooting a photo; he simply yells out "poop." [Read More]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Instagram "a super positive space" during a lengthy interview on The Joe Rogan Experience on Thursday. [Read More]
Photographers have taken to social media to complain about Instagram's recent video-centric changes to compete with TikTok, declaring that the app "hates" them. [Read More]
If you have ever uploaded a photo to your social media feed and found that the image quality isn’t as good as you’d like it to be, you're not alone. Most sites that allow you to upload images will use their own set of parameters to resize and compress uploaded images to save file space and bandwidth. [Read More]
Twitter is finally rolling out bigger images in your feed after almost two months since it began testing the feature. Photographers who want to share their photos on the social network now don’t have to worry about Twitter’s cropping algorithm, and photos will be shown in all their glory by default. While it might not […]
Twitter has announced that it is testing full-size images as previews in feeds for select iOS and Android users. This shift would make it so images aren’t automatically cropped to a tight, landscape-oriented version on feeds and may make them more engaging.